Friday, 23 November 2012

Met up with some old pals from my Illustration MA this evening. Kasia Matyjaszek has an exhibition of her work in the golden hare bookshop in Edinburgh run by Helen Coburn. Some excellent work on show by Kasia in a lovely bookshop/gallery space. Some nice comics for sale too!

Saturday, 10 November 2012

Day 10 and a little bit of a cheat. Each panel is from a different strip in my autobiographical comic The Adventures of Ticking Boy but I have tried to place them so there is still a narrative. Not the original one but a new story made from elements of the others - a comics cut-up.

Friday, 9 November 2012

This is the view from my window, which unlike Ferguslie Park, isn't in Paisley. The quote, which always makes me give a wry smile, is from Espedair Street by Iain Banks, which is about an ageing prog-rocker living in a church in Glasgow.

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Today's strip was inspired by yesterday's and was created from photographs I took of Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #1136 at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art. If you haven't visited, do - it's on until 25th November. It is an incredible experience to sit in the room and bathe in these bright colours, my photos don't do it justice. I've cropped and rotated each panel to make them into a sequence that works.

Monday, 5 November 2012

This strip is the first of a few photo comics that I am planning during the #30dayscomics and is a summary of the comics events I have been involved with in Dundee in the past month or so as part of my PhD studies and also as Dundee Contemporary Arts comics intern.

The top panel shows Colin MacNeil, Cam Kennedy and Al Ewing during a signing session at DCA prior to a screening of the new DREDD movie, they also gave a great Q&A session after the movie and you can see part of it here. The chap in front of the blue slide in the next panel is Dave Gibbons, giving a workshop on creating comics at Dundee University as part of Dundee Comics Day. The inset panel is from a strip by Ulf K. which is showing as part of the Comics, Manga & Co: The new culture of German comics exhibition at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design until December 8th. The next panel is from the end of day discussion at Dundee Comics Day and shows Frank Quitely, the back of Rian Hughes head, a partially obscured Grant Morrison, Cameron Stewart, Frazer Irving and Peter Doherty. The final panel is the front cover of a 16 page comic created during a workshop with the Discovery Young Ambassadors at the Discovery Film Festival last weekend. Phew, I need a lie down now...

Thursday, 1 November 2012

Derik Badman and others are attempting 30 days of comics again this year so I thought that I would try and see how long I last. This first attempt is from me mucking about in Manga Studio for the first time, and is deliberately aiming for the abstract. Many folks seem to be setting limitations on their comics, not sure I will but if I do it will be to keep them reasonably abstract and veer away from my regular autobiographical comics. The twitter tag is #30dayscomics

About Me

I am a researcher, artist and cartoonist. I am currently working on a PhD in autobiographical comics at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at Dundee University.
See more of my work at www.damonherd.com